Veteran Nigerian recording artiste, Gabriel Oche Amanyi, who is better known as Terry G, has accused American music magazine, Billboard, of “robbing” him by snubbing his songs in its recently released Top 50 ‘Best Afrobeats Songs of All-Time’ list.
This recent development is coming after ‘African Queen’ by 2Face topped the list curated by Billboard staff. Timaya’s ‘Dem Mama’, Weird MC’s ‘Ijoya’, and ‘Yahooze’ by Olu Maintain also cut.
However, Terry G’s hit songs, including ‘Akpako Master’, ‘Free Madness’, ‘Run Mad’, and others, were conspicuously missing from the list.
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Reacting to a post by music monitoring platform, Chart Data, reporting ‘African Queen’ as number one on the list, Terry G claimed that he was “robbed.” He wrote, “TERRY G robbed.”
His post elicited mixed reactions, with some fans agreeing that he deserves to be on the list, while others argued that none of his songs stand a chance against ‘African Queen’ for the number one spot.
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Billboard Names 2Face’s ‘African Queen’ Best Afrobeats Song of All-Time
In other news, the international music platform, Billboard, has named 2Face Idibia’s 2004 hit single, ‘African Queen,’ as the best Afrobeats song of all time.
Earlier in the week, Billboard released its list of the Top 50 Best Afrobeats Songs of All-Time.
Wizkid is the only artist with double entries in the top 10 with ‘Ojuelegba’ at number 2 and ‘Essence’ (feat. Tems) at number 5.
Favour’s ‘Nwa Baby (Ashawo Remix) is number 3 on the list, while Rema’s global hit ‘Calm Down’ took the 4th spot.
CKay’s ‘Love Nwantiti’, D’banj’s ‘Oliver Twist’, Davido’s ‘Fall’, Burna Boy’s ‘Ye’ and P-Square’s ‘Chop My Money Remix’ (feat. Akon) complete the top 10.
Despite Nigerian artists dominating the top 20, Ghanaian stars Fuse ODG and Sarkodie made appearances with ‘Azonto’ (feat. Itz Tiffany) and ‘Adonai’ (feat. Castro) at numbers 18 and 19, respectively.
Styl-Plus’ evergreen song ‘Olufunmi’ is ranked at number 11 while 9ice’s ‘Gongo Aso’ holds the number 12th position. ‘Do Me’ by P-Square and ‘Dami Duro’ by Davido occupied numbers 13 and 14, respectively.
Yemi Alade is the highest-ranked female lead artist on the list with ‘Johnny’ at number 15.
Wande Coal’s ‘Bumper to Bumper’ (17) and Phyno’s ‘Fada Fada’ featuring Olamide (20) wrapped up the top 20.